cannabis

German Health Minister Nina Warken on Wednesday said the legalization of cannabis “was a mistake,” delivering a “sobering” report on the use of the drug two years after it was controversially freed from government prohibitions.

The FBI announced the arrest of a sheriff from Suffolk County, Massachusetts, on charges of extortion. The arrest of the immigration sanctuary county sheriff follows an investigation into allegations that he extorted $50,000 from a Boston-based cannabis company.

Steve Robinson of The Maine Wire discusses the recent arrest of seven Chinese nationals involved in a multi-million-dollar money laundering, alien smuggling, and drug trafficking enterprise in Massachusetts and Maine.

Smoke it if you’ve got it. That pretty much sums up the approach of London Mayor Sadiq Khan to personal drug use as backed calls Wednesday for small quantities of cannabis to be decriminalised and “negate problems between the police and ethnic communities.”

Russia has reportedly freed a second American detained on drug charges, less than a week after releasing teacher Marc Fogel from three years in captivity.

Kamala Harris and her running mate are dangling weed in front of young Americans in exchange for their votes, and their allies in the porn industry are urging young men to vote against President Donald Trump.

Maryland Gov. Wes Moore (D) will pardon over 175,000 marijuana convictions Monday to reduce impact from the war on drugs.

Germany’s hardliner covid boss has succeeded in pushing through his cannabis legalisation pet project in the teeth of opposition.

Republican Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin vetoed a bill on Thursday that would have legalized the sale of recreational cannabis.

A study suggests daily cannabis users have a 25 percent increased risk of a heart attack and a 42 percent increased risk of a stroke.

Cholnan Srikaew, the health minister of Thailand, said on Thursday that recreational marijuana will be banned by the end of 2024. Thailand was the first Southeast Asian country to legalize medical marijuana in 2018, followed by recreational use in 2022.

Super Bowl quarterback Jim McMahon blasted the Biden administration for its abject failure on immigration and pushed his cannabis company.

President Joe Biden’s administration will reportedly loosen laws regulating cannabis (marijuana), which some advocates say amounts to only a symbolic gesture that will ultimately change nothing.

A hot-air balloon pilot was on two kinds of drugs during a fatal 2021 crash in Albuquerque, New Mexico, according to officials.

Germany’s Cabinet approved plan to liberalize cannabis, setting European Union’s most populous nation to decriminalize possession.

Germany’s Cabinet is set to decriminalize possession and allow members of “cannabis clubs” to buy the substance for recreational purposes.

Half of Americans said they have tried marijuana, a poll reveals; Democrat men were the single most likely group to smoke the drug.

Anheuser-Busch Inc. is selling eight brands to a cannabis company as the beverage giant struggles amid the transgender controversy.

Chiefs tight end and Super Bowl champion Travis Kelce believes that at least half and as much as 80 percent of the NFL uses cannabis.

The use of “magic” mushrooms by young adults has nearly doubled in three years along with other hallucinogenic drugs.

Ben & Jerry’s co-founder Ben Cohen started a cannabis company to help free jailed drug offenders. The marijuana products will be launched in Vermont next month.

The UK government has announced a new ban on “hippy crack” despite the fact that police in the country often ignore existing drug-related crime.

Woke royal Harry, Duke of Sussex, has put his U.S. visa “at risk” by admitting to drug abuse both in his home country and California, according to immigration experts. 

Troubled California-based royal Harry, Duke of Sussex, has suggested that illegal drug abuse helped him see “the truth”, according to his memoir Spare.

Officials within Germany’s federal government are reportedly pushing for a bill to legalise cannabis in the country to be drawn up “as soon as possible”.

The legalization of recreational cannabis in the state of California has reportedly neither led to a downturn in illegal business nor has it relieved stress on law enforcement.

A mother in Virginia faces murder charges for the death of her four-year-old son involving THC, the chemical found in cannabis.

While experts are warning that the country could run out of gas as early as February, German political parties are now bickering about how liberal new laws legalising cannabis should be.

UK Police forces are de facto engaging in the decriminalisation of cannabis without government approval, with charges for possession of the drug falling to a record low.

A Russian court sentenced U.S. citizen and WNBA player Brittney Griner to nine and a half years in prison on Thursday for smuggling cannabis oil into Russia in February.

Rapper Snoop Dogg trolled President Joe Biden this weekend by promoting a premium cannabis brand, “Sleepy Joe OG,” that mocks the president’s apaprent lack of lucidity.

An employee at Euphorium cannabis shop in Covington, Washington, shot and killed an alleged robber Thursday around 7:45 p.m.

SF Police Chief sent three officers back to training school for standing down while a business was being burglarized.

Number of Scottish cannabis users being hospitalised with psychiatric issues has soared since the drug was semi-decriminalised.

Sadiq Khan is reportedly planning to effectively decriminalise marijuana for those under the age of 25 in the British capital.

A multi-state cannabis company baked an 850-pound weed brownie “that is believed to be the world’s largest THC-infused brownie ever made.”